سوموك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *simük or *sümkürük (“snot, mucus”), a derivation from *simki- (“to blow one's nose”), whence سومكورمك (sümkürmek, “to blow one's nose”).

Alternative forms

• سمك (sümük), سموك (sümük)

Noun

سوموك • (sümük) (definite accusative سوموكی (sümüğü), plural سوموكلر (sümükler))

1. mucus, snot, a viscous, slippery secretion from the lining of the mucous membranes

   Synonyms: خلم (hilm), مخاط (muhat)

Derived terms

• سوموكلو (sümüklü, “covered with mucus”)

Descendants

• Turkish: sümük
• → Armenian: սիւմիւք (siwmiwkʻ)

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sümük1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4378
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “سمك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 275b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سوموك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 703
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Muccus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1090
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2673
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sümük”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سوموك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1095

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *siŋük; cognate with Azerbaijani sümük, Bashkir һөйәк (höyək), Chuvash шӑмӑ (šămă), Kazakh сүйек (süiek), Kyrgyz сүйөк (süyök), Turkmen süňk, Uyghur سۆڭەك (sö'ngek), Uzbek suyak and Yakut уҥуох (uñuoq).

Alternative forms

• سوكك (süñük), سومك (sümük)

Noun

سوموك • (sümük) (definite accusative سوموكی (sümüğü), plural سوموكلر (sümükler))

1. bone, any of the components of an endoskeleton consisting of calcium phosphate and collagen

   Synonyms: استخوان (ustuhan), عظم (ʼazm), كمیك (kemik)

Descendants

• Turkish: sümük

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sümük3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4378
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Os”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[6], Vienna, column 1225
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سومك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[7], Vienna, column 2715
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سوموك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[8], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1095